My favorite part is how it'll reinstall itself every so often when the OS updates. I used to be able to brick that in registry but its changed again to where that trick doesnt work anymore.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's how you can fix that problem permanently.

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Correct, but thats not really a solution as i would still need to emulate a windows OS to play the games i want.

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Windows becoming more of a service/subscription will hopefully speed that process up as people abandon ship.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Have you actually tried it lately? I've been gaming exclusively on Linux since a few years ago, at this point.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, I have one game that will not work in Linux. I have thousands of hours in it, and I truly love it.

Rust

Also, apparently I'm a masochist

[–] alci@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

Works perfectly on Linux.Just run rustup.

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[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That says more about the games you play than the capacity of Linux. Now do it without proton or wine, or pick any unsupported AAA game.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Saying do it without proton or wine in response is insane, it's like saying "Now do it without your gpu plugged in." They aren't native Linux, but who cares as long as they run well.

The few games with problematic anticheat are a deal issue though.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

No, there no equivalent because windows doesn't need third party interpretors for AAA gaming software

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Delete the win32 API and DirectX DLL files (which is basically all WINE is replicating) and see how well Windows plays your games then!

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'll delete what my system is having to replicate and you do too, let's see who can run games.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I simply don't care. Games run fine under proton, why should I?

It's not even extra work you have to do, steam handles pretty much all of it.

[–] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (13 children)

You don't have to care, but don't expect others not to just because you're OK with a substandard experience. If you're OK eating shit that's fine, but don't trytell me it's chocolate when I'm holding real chocolate.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Proton simply does not deliver a meaningfully substandard experience. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's worse. I'd bet the majority of steam deck users don't even know what it is.

Most games take a slight performance hit, so small you won't notice unless you're watching the numbers. Some games even have better performance on proton than native windows.

Why do you think it's substandard?

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[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You out here comparing windows to real chocolate?

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[–] Dimpships@feddit.uk 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, have you?

areweanticheatyet.com

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don't give a fuck about a negligible 117 games, compared to the thousands upon thousands that run in Linux just fine. Posting a pie chart that ignores the existence of those just so it can misleadingly pretend 37% of anything is "broken" on Linux is bordering on bad faith.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Love that they chose to cherrypick the one thing pretty much everyone has talked about being the issue left to fix. Looking at games people actually play, it's like 3%

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Gaming for me is mostly fine on Linux, it's running Ableton with standard plug-ins that doesn't work, surprisingly. Basically the only way I can run my own hardware for a music rig is through Windows. Also the odd thing like "run this firmware update utility" for various devices, then you'll have to go forum diving where people have tried all the workarounds to realize the workaround is just "use winblows."

I'm a mixed environment sysadmin for almost 15 years so Windows doesn't bother me as a product as much as others, I don't like Microsoft's business practices, but I can pretty much disable anything I don't like on Windows Enterprise. Like they are compliant with security regulations regarding critical infrastructure, as much as people justifiably rant about privacy concerns they try and force on to end users, but you can get around a lot of that with the same old commands. Our isolated environment isn't sending data to Microsoft or anything from our workstations for instance, and this traffic is heavily monitored and audited.

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

well there used to be a hack that has kept my win10 system edge-free for around 4 years, edge just reinstalled itself tho (yesterday)

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[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 95 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine what the poor bloke who had to delete this witnessed

[–] jopepa@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

I like to believe it’s Rick Santorum, with a growing paranoia that everything is becoming a synonym for scary lights on sex stuff.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They're not the only ones:

[–] Verat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Definitely not lol, this one also went well

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

And here you are, spreading their ads even in a community that's super pretective of their adblocks. It works as indended.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

https://www.truthorfiction.com/jersey-mikes-how-do-you-top-your-sub-blocked-blocked-blocked-none-of-you-are-free-from-sin-tweets/

[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 85 points 10 months ago

I like to Edge by using a defective browser over and over before I open Firefox and climax.

[–] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 10 months ago

who up edgin they browser

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

So that's what Edge is for!

[–] crsu@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Edgelord mothermother

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Conceived in a hell beyond your depth of perception break of the edgecrusher

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, why delete a post with 938 likes!?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Probably because they had accidentally asked people to share amateur porn with them. NSFW Wikipedia article about edging

[–] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like they did it on purpose for the attention. Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be? A screenshot of a website? They knew what they were doing.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

It's tough to tell with Microsoft, really. They're definitely cynical and duplicitous enough to do it on purpose and play it off as an unfortunate mistake, but they've also shown themselves to be stupid and out of touch enough that it could be an ACTUAL mistake 🤷

Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be?

Ever since Google became a verb, tons of other corporations have been super needy about wanting to be verbed, nouned or (as in this case) verbed and then nouned. It's pathetic, really.